Charity vote

Vote for our next charity partner

We’re excited to offer our members the opportunity to choose our next charity partner. We’ve carefully selected two very worthy charities for you to vote for.

We want you to vote for which well-deserving charity’s project will get funding and support from Skipton Building Society for the next three years. We've pledged £3.1m to charitable causes from our 2024 profits, and over £1.8m of this will be donated over a three-year period to the charity voted for by members.

Each of the charities support our goal of helping people experiencing hardship to have improved financial wellbeing. You could make a huge difference to the future activities of your preferred charity, and the people they support, simply by voting for them.

Discover more about the projects each charity will carry out if they win our member vote.

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MyBnk

MyBnk is a financial education charity dedicated to creating a financially confident population.

Project: Money skills and confidence for those facing life’s toughest challenges.

What will they do?

MyBnk will use the funding to deliver expert-led financial education to those from deprived communities, in a number of key ways:

  • By focusing on different generations affected by poverty, funding will help equip people with vital money management skills and encourage financial resilience.
  • To help 200,000 disadvantaged individuals across the UK, MyBnk will launch three new financial education hubs and expand a number of their existing ones.
  • MyBnk’s aim is to enhance financial capability above the national average and to reduce care leaver homelessness to under 2%. This focuses on the challenges and pitfalls care leavers face, who are usually not ready to live independently.
  • They’ll engage with over 4,000 school children annually to reinforce lifelong positive financial habits.
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Refuge

Refuge provides life-saving support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children, so they can help rebuild their lives free from fear.

Project: Financial freedom for survivors of domestic abuse.

What will they do?

Nearly one in six people in the UK are facing economic abuse, which often leaves them trapped with their abuser or struggling to rebuild their life.

Refuge will use the funding to make economic abuse support available nationally for the first time ever. This means over 120,000 survivors will have access to one-to-one specialist help regardless of their postcode.

They will help people deal with debts built-up by their abuser, secure online accounts and speak with banks, HMRC, and credit agencies to give them more financial freedom.

At the same time, Refuge will help raise awareness through national campaigns, working with the government, police, and banks to make sure no one is left to face economic abuse alone.

Disclaimer information

Skipton Building Society has undertaken a thorough process to search and select suitable charity partners for the member vote, and aims to support the charity voted for by members as part of the AGM. Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) manages charitable donations on our behalf and therefore any donations to the selected charity will be subject to CAF’s verification process. Should a selected charity not meet CAF’s verification process, CAF will notify Skipton Building Society with the view to selecting an alternative charity to receive donations, similar in nature to the selected charity.